An edition of The poverty of postmodernism (1994)

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An edition of The poverty of postmodernism (1994)

The poverty of postmodernism

In this book John O'Neill examines the postmodern turn in the social sciences. He rejects the current celebration of knowledge and value relativism on the grounds that it renders critical reason and common sense incapable of resisting the superficial ideologies of minoritarianism that leave the hard core of global capitalism unanalysed.

From a phenomenological standpoint (Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Schutz, Winch), O'Neill challenges Lyotard's post-traditionalist reading of Wittgenstein and Habermas in order to defend commonsense reason and values that are constitutive of the everyday life-world. In addition he argues from the standpoint of Vico and Marx on the civil history of embodied mind that the post-rationalist celebration of the arts of superficiality undermines the recognition of the cultural debt each generation owes to past and post-generations. In a positive way O'Neill develops an account of the historical vocation of reason and of the charitable accountability of science to commonsense that is necessary to sustain the basic institutions of civic democracy.

This book will be of interest to anyone concerned to understand the continuing relevance of Marx, Weber, Husserl and Schutz to the debates around Wittgenstein, Lyotard, Foucault and Jameson.

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Routledge
Language
English
Pages
205

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The poverty of postmodernism
1995, Routledge
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1994, Routledge
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
London, New York
Series
Social futures, Routledge social futures series.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
303.4
Library of Congress
HM73 .O55 1994, HM73.O55 1994, HM73 .O55 1994eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
205 p. :
Number of pages
205

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1083585M
Internet Archive
povertyofpostmod0000onei
ISBN 10
0415116864, 0415116872
LCCN
94007260
OCLC/WorldCat
252776439, 30030480
Library Thing
5314328
Goodreads
2132818
1347754

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